Rock, Paper, Scissors
Osipov, Maxim / Alexievich, Svetlana / Dralyuk, Boris / Fleming, Alex / Jackson, Anne Marie
The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story, recenly profiled in The New YorkerMaxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia's best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov's fiction presents a nu...